On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>wrote:

> Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com> writes:
>
> ...
> > I use this all the time.  What I'm trying to accomplish is to
> > integrate Emacs into the Browser via a plugin/extension mechanism.
> >  My underlying model is Chrome OS where you cannot install Emacs for
> > something like Edit_with_Emacs to connect via the Emacs server.
> >
> > -pmr
>
> As I understand it, you can install software onto a Chromebook or
> similar by putting the device into developer/non-signed-boot mode, after
> which it is similar to installing stuff on a Gentoo box.  Even without
> resorting to that, one could always SSH into a "proper" GNU system with
> an Emacs server installed; this is what I have long done on work
> computers (usually Windows boxes) that don't permit me to install
> software.  There is a working SSH client in the Chrome Web Store.
>

Again, my goal is to have a seamless, robust Emacs experience when editing
or viewing files in a Web constrained device.  Nothing exemplifies the
experience I am after more than visiting an org-mode file on my server
directly or via something like Google Drive or Drop Box and having the file
handler be Emacs, i.e. I visit https://my.server.com/foo.org and rather
than see the browser display something akin to "Sorry, I don't know how to
deal with that, Jim", I want the opened tab to display what org-mode would
display and keystrokes in the tab to be interpreted as org-mode would, by
an Emacs instance handling the file.

Using an ssh type mechanism is neither seamless, robust nor practical.

Other than that, I think the cause is basically hopeless; a Chromebook
> is a Tivoized device.
>

My cause is not hopeless, I am convinced.  I've never used a Tivo so I do
not understand the analogy.  Also, I use the Chromebook as a name to
characterize an experience: where a browser is the main (possibly sole)
application and all computing is done via URL references.  This computing
model is important to me because it enormously simplifies my computing
environment and allows me to focus on hacking rather than system
administration.  It also allows me to use commodity hardware, although I
will be the first to admit that the initial Chromebook devices were
underpowered and less than useful.  On my MacBook Air, I basically use
Chrome and Emacs, which was the catalyst to asking the question: is there a
way to combine the two seamlessly?  I cannot imagine Emacs ever being a
Chrome replacement but I can imagine Emacs handling a file in a Chrome tab.
 Now I just need to find a practical way to make it happen. :-)

-pmr